Alas! what an awful picture is this of Asa. Oh! how evident it is when men grow cool towards God that they grow impatient of reproof; and how unbounded is the rage of the human mind! Not only the preacher, but the hearers, if they look as though they countenanced the sermon, will come in for a portion in the angry man's resentment.
Verse 2 Chronicles 16:10. _ASA WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER_] Instead of humbling himself, and deprecating the displeasure of the Lord, he persecuted his messenger: and having thus laid his impious hands...
The rebuke of Hanani and his imprisonment by Asa, omitted by the writer of Kings, are among the most important of the additions to Asa’s history for which we are indebted to the author of Chronicles....
CHAPTER 16 ASA'S RELAPSE AND DEATH _ 1. War between Asa and Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1)_ 2. Hanani's rebuke (2 Chronicles 16:7) 3. Hanani imprisoned (2 Chronicles 16:10)
Taken from 1 Kings 15:16 with unimportant variations. 2 CHRONICLES 16:7. With the words of 2 Chronicles 16:9, from henceforth thou shalt have wars, contrast...
WROTH WITH THE SEER. One of the eleven rulers offended with God's servants. See note on Exodus 10:28....
in _a prison house_ Render, IN THE STOCKS (lit. _in the house of the stocks_). Jeremiah 20:2; Jeremiah 29:26 (R.V.). _oppressed_ Lit. _brake in pieces_, an expression which when applied to things woul...
FOR HE WAS IN A RAGE WITH HIM, &C.— _Though this thing displeased his people, and at that time Asa slew some of the people._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The event here recorded we had 1 Kings 15. The...
4. THE REIGN OF ASA (14-16) TEXT 2 Chronicles 14:1. So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet te...
_THEN ASA WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER, AND PUT HIM IN A PRISON HOUSE; FOR HE WAS IN A RAGE WITH HIM BECAUSE OF THIS THING. AND ASA OPPRESSED SOME OF THE PEOPLE THE SAME TIME._ Asa oppressed some of the p...
16:10 prison; (c-13) Lit. 'house of the stocks.'...
REIGN OF ASA (CONCLUDED) This chapter reproduces with some verbal differences 1 Kings 15:17, but adds an account of a rebuke received by Asa from the seer Hanani....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 16 ASA AND BEN-HADAD – 2 CHRONICLES 16:1-6 V1 In the 36th
THEN. — _And._ In a prison house: _in the stocks._ Literally, _House of the stocks_ (Jeremiah 20:2; Jeremiah 29:26). The word _mahpèkheth_ literally means “turning,” “distortion,” and so an instrument...
וַ יִּכְעַ֨ס אָסָ֜א אֶל ־הָ רֹאֶ֗ה וַֽ
ASA: DIVINE RETRIBUTION 2 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 15:1; 2 Chronicles 16:1 ABIJAH, dying, as far as we can gather from Chronicles, in the odor of sanctity, was succeeded by his so
This is a very sad chapter, telling as it does the story of the lapse of a man who, considering the conditions under which he lived, had for six and thirty years been so remarkably true to God. When B...
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] (d) in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time. (d) Thus instead of...
_Prison. Literally, "in bonds," ( nervum) made of leather thongs or nerves, (H.) or of iron, to confine either the neck or the feet. Isidor. orig. 5. ultra --- Heb. "the house of disturbance." Sept.,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 16. In his wars with Jeroboam, Abijah stands entirely upon this ground, and he is blessed. Asa follows his steps; and, whether at peace, or while...
THEN ASA WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER,.... For this faithful reproof of him, which was another instance of his sin and folly: AND PUT HIM IN A PRISON HOUSE; in a very strait place, in which he could not t...
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time. Ver. 10. _Then Asa was...
_Asa was wroth with the seer_ Though the reproof came from God by one that was known to be his messenger; though it was just, and the reasoning fair, and all intended for his good, yet he _was wroth_...
1 Asa, by the aide of the Syrians, diuerteth Baasha from building of Ramah. 7 Being reproued thereof by Hanani, he putteth him in prison. 11 Among his other actes in his disease he seeketh not to Go...
Then Asa, adding to his foolishness, WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER AND PUT HIM IN A PRISON-HOUSE; FOR HE WAS IN A RAGE WITH HIM BECAUSE OF THIS THING. His pride was offended, he resented the frankness of th...
ASA REPROVED BY HANANI...
ASA GOES TO THE WORLD FOR HELP (vv.1-6) Baasha, king of Israel, had become alarmed at the thought of some from Israel defecting to Judah, Therefore he came and built Ramah as a buffer between the tw...
OPPRESSED: _ Heb._ crushed...
IN A PRISON-HOUSE, or, _in the house of the stocks_; in which the feet, or, as some of the Hebrews say, the necks of the prisoners were locked up. See JEREMIAH 20:2, JEREMIAH 29:26....
2 Chronicles 16:10 Asa H609 angry H3707 (H8799) seer H7200 (H8802) put H5414 (H8799) prison H4115...
CONTENTS: War between Asa and Baasha. Asa's rebuke and death. CHARACTERS: God, Asa, Hanani, Baasha, Ben-hadad. CONCLUSION: God is much displeased when He is distrusted and when the arm of flesh is r...
2 Chronicles 16:1. _In the six and thirtieth year._ Baasha began to reign the third year of Asa, and he reigned twenty four years. 1 Kings 15:33. And when obliged by Benhadad to abandon the fortificat...
_Then Asa was wroth with the seer._ A RELUCTANT CONSCIENCE It is said that straw which had been used for the bedding of the lions at Wombwell’s menagerie was sold, and placed in a stable as bedding f...
_Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasuries of the house of the Lord._ THE FOLLY OF BRIBERY Trust in man, not in God-- I. Led to sacrilege in religious things. Gifts bestowed or pro...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 16:10 ASA WAS ANGRY WITH THE SEER AND PUT HIM... IN PRISON. This is the OT example of a king persecuting a prophet (compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.] As a prevents Baasha from invading Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1); Asa reproved by Hanani (2 Chronicles 16:7); Asa’s sickness and end (2 Chronicles 16:11; _cf._ parallel in...
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter fall easily into three parts: Asa's conflict with Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1; parallel, 1 Kings 15:16-11); Hanani's rebuke of Asa, and Asa's ill reception of it...
In the thirty-sixth year of his reign, Baasha who was now the king of Israel started to fortify the city of Ramah, north of Jerusalem, in order that he might cut off all of the trade that is coming in...
2 Chronicles 18:26; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 26:19; 2 Samuel 11:4;...